What time of day does Fox News transition from "the celebrity used bad language" to "do not be deceived by the rootless cosmopolitans who control society, blood and soil are the only truth?" Like happy hour-ish?

Facing mounting controversy for declaring the very real problem of white supremacy in America to be a "hoax," Tucker Carlson announced at the end of his Wednesday night Fox News show that he will be taking a vacation. https://t.co/vpXNHmSoaw

IIRC, Bill O’Reilly went from ‘sudden vacation’ to ‘suspended’ to ‘Bill who?’ when he pushed the boundaries a little too far. One can hope that Carlson will also be forced into doing podcasts from his basement… assuming Tucker’s penthous *has* a basement…

For once I didn’t yell at NPR on my drive home. I did, however, sit in my car and cry because of the ICE deportation story. Listening to a little girl cry for her father and say he’s not a criminal broke my heart completely. 💔

I’ve had to curtail my radio-yelling habit. I almost bought it at about 50 mph driving to work on Monday. I misjudged the oncoming truck’s speed while I was making a left turn, probably because I was also occupied yelling at Trump.

The latest Monmouth poll shows a big drop in Sanders support among voters likely to attend the Iowa caucuses

… Biden continues to lead the Democratic field with 28% support among voters who are likely to attend the Iowa caucuses in February 2020. This is nearly identical to his 27% support level in April. [Note: Biden had not yet declared his candidacy at the time of Monmouth’s first 2020 poll in Iowa.] However, Warren is now closing the gap at 19% support, up from 7% four months ago. Support for Sanders has gone in the opposite direction, now at 9% compared with 16% in April. California Sen. Kamala Harris clocks in at 11% (up from 7%) and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has 8% (similar to his 9% in April).

Wilmer nearly won this state 3 years ago. Now he’s sunk to a single digit and faces a humiliating 5th place finish.

@MomSense: coordinating with Child Protective Services would not be consistent with the plan. The plan was to terrorize children on back to school day.
IIRC, Esquire Magazine had a long form article on the Beslan School Massacre. The Trump back to school raids reminded me of that particular horror.

I’ve had to curtail my NPR listening. I get too upset. It was on today because my kid took the aux cord out so I had to switch to radio. I’m feeling very guilty for not hitting the streets over this. Why aren’t we hitting the streets? Is it fatigue?

With such large raids I can’t imagine why they didn’t coordinate. Now we are hearing reports of missing children. Hopefully neighbors, friends, teachers, and churches have taken the kids in, but I’m really worried about their safety. You g kids are vulnerable to trafficking. Older kids are vulnerable to trafficking and gang recruitment. I’m beside myself – but this subject of child protection hits close to home because of my work life. I’m feeling panicked.

I’ve always thought we should never use “white supremacy” but should instead say “white delusions”. Those clowns are losers who know that the only way they can be considered successful is if white people are by definition considered more successful than any others. They demand that everyone else recognize their delusions as reality.

Why are white supremacists so uniformly un-supreme? In addition to being evil and stupid, they have no sense of irony.

Yeah, when they say they just want to hang around with their own kind and celebrate white culture, somehow I’m guessing they’re not reciting John Donne sonnets to one another. I remember back when Larry King was doing radio, a white supremacist type would occasionally call in and complain that he was being discriminated against because he was white. And King would reply, “Sir, you’re being discriminated against because you’re stupid.”

@David 🎅🎄Merry Christmas🎄🎅 Koch: Finishing 5th in Iowa would be the effective end of his campaign, particularly if Warren won. Even coming in 3rd in NH the next week wouldn’t be enough. I think he will stay in through the Vermont primary, then drop out. What the Berniacs will do at that point is anyone’s guess. But that prospect is much less threatening when they’re less than a tenth of the primary electorate.

Unfortunately, I have been acquainted with (not by choice) some white supremacists in my life, and they are, to a (wo)man, unattractive, unintelligent, and unsuccessful. I suspect that this is why they are attracted to movements like that: looking for any way to avoid confronting the reality that they are total losers.

Bernie will not drop out. He will demand his followers to throw the Epic Conniption of 2020 against the DREAD DNC ESTABLISHMENT and refuse to play ball with any final Democratic nominee that’s NOT himself. Even if it’s Warren running on essentially the SAME PLATFORM (only oops BETTER) than his. We’re already seeing it on twitter and facebook where his most devoted followers are already screaming against evil Centrist Killery Wannabes Who Are No Better Than trump(tm) Both Sides Durr.

Gods. I hate Utopianists with their fantasies of Absolute Perfection. They will ruin the “Mostly Good” every fcking time when Mostly Good will better guarantee an honest win.

I wonder if the family or whoever if in charge of the kids were Trump supporters even before the shooting…cause I CANNOT imagine a non-supporter doing this to that damn kid

Here’s the video of CNN reporting that Trump forced that now-orphaned baby, whose parents died shielding him during the mass shooting, to come back to the hospital for a Trump publicity event after the other victims refused to meet him.https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1159590617128820737

We are a go!WE THE PEOPLE MARCH in DC on September 21!@KarMcR and I are working with fab volunteers to get a website up in next few days.We will list solidarity marches, transport folks are arranging to get to DC & info on the march itself, etc. Stay tuned! #WeThePeopleMarchpic.twitter.com/s0tLE6M2IL— Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) August 8, 2019

Oof. I’ve been hip-deep this summer in the history of white supremacy, so it is (the tiniest bit) gratifying to see this bigot “vacationed” for a period.
My College is using MARCH – the illustrated history of John Lewis’s role in the Civil Rights movement – as a cross-college read. I am doing all of the curriculum tie-ins and extra history materials for faculty. One of the things I wanted to provide them was a series of careful definitions — an important one being the definition for “white supremacy.”

Too often I feel like “white supremacy” conjures images of skinheads, neo-Nazis, etc., (and FSM knows there are plenty of those around) and this lets off the (arguably) more dangerous white supremacists that understand tact and context.
Anyway, I develop this definition from Stephen Kantrowitz, a historian of … white supremacy (Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy ahem)

Total and unconditional white male monopoly on authority, in every sphere of life — from the household to national politics. Reinforced from plantations and farms to the Supreme Court, and achieved through the entire legal, social and economic system.

And this definition for “demagoguery” (since Trump is the Grand Dragon of White Supremacy) is really marvelous, though it relates to the sad case of Sen. Lester Hunt (D-WY) Dying for Joe McCarthy’s Sins by Rodger McDaniel:

“Characterized by an appeal to prejudice and ignorance rather than logic and reason, demagoguery flourished during times when people have rational cause to be concerned about events beyond their control. By manipulating their fears, demagogues give frightened people an invitation to think irrationally about difficult times.” p. 146

And folks if you’ve never found Peggy McIntosh’s article on White Privilege (“Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”) you’re really missing out. (Essay is googleable)

Every time I see Tucker’s mug I remember he is an heir to the Swanson frozen food fortune, and I think, he had the freedom to do anything he wanted with his life and he chose to be a smarmy, hateful jerk.

He could have been a philanthropist
or a beach bum. Those would have been my choices, anyway.

So then if GOP retains Senate, as is likely…so if he wins, Biden is banking on what exactly? This “unknown” asset will make McConnell will treat his presidency better than PBO….hmmm….not what could that asset be…

Joe Biden, touring Iowa, told reporters, in so many words, that his plan is to have an ineffectual, failed presidency. Or, as Biden put it more pithily, “Ending the filibuster is a very dangerous move.”

Biden is expressing one of his most deeply held beliefs, which is his boundless faith in the goodness of the Senate. This is the point Biden was attempting to make in his controversial nostalgic riff about his history of working with segregationists. The Senate brings people together, even people as different as Joe Biden and the segregationists. (Biden failed to anticipate that some Democrats would interpret this to mean that Biden and the segregationists were not so different after all)…https://twitter.com/djchefron/status/1159603304671961088

1/ White supremacist group League of the South is meeting at the Casa Isabel in Lake City, Florida on Saturday.The business owners say it would cost them too much to cancel.Call them at (386) 588-0613 to remind them it'll cost them more to get rep as a Nazi-friendly business. pic.twitter.com/bAKEDfRdes— AntiFash Gordon (@AntiFashGordon) August 8, 2019

@Dorothy A. Winsor: CNN just now reported that. They seemed to think that trump wanted someone who would work with justice in order to protect him. I wish I had a DVR because I was only half listening, but it didn’t sound good.

.@nprmusic fired a critic explicitly over a Tucker Carlson segment about her. This isn’t a James Damore “fired for truth” thing where somebody got canned for insulting a protected class, this is @GrimKim’s dislike of sitting politicians costing her a job. https://t.co/CZdpzEaS8q— Sam Thielman (@samthielman) August 8, 2019

FBI docs leaked to me reveal that in 2018, the Bureau targeted "Black Identity Extremists" under a program codenamed "IRON FIST", planning to use undercover agents to infiltrate the group which it considered a top counterterrorism priority.For @tyt: https://t.co/q9hI2zQLQnpic.twitter.com/KRaLyUGxzX— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) August 8, 2019

@Dorothy A. Winsor: @JPL: One of the people I follow on Twitter retweeted a thread that Gordon worked hard to get the CIA workforce diversified with more women and POC and was particularly good to one disabled employee who had issues with access and hostility when she first started working there. Trump had Pence tell her she was fired, but she had her resignation letter already typed up, because she knew her job was toast. She was by law the person who replaced Coats after he left, and after a week or so spent trying to get around that they just kicked her out.

I read the WaPo article about the house the NRA wanted to buy and they linked to the real estate listing. It’s still unsold and price was dropped yesterday to $4.7 million, down from the $6 million the NRA was going to spend on it. Not nearly as tacky as Twitler’s gold-plated everything, but still a very ostentatious McMansion. Who needs nine bathrooms with four bedrooms?

Wow…apparently, the Dayton shooter’s sibling he murdered, was trans. Who went by he/him prounouns according to social media. Whcih mean he’s been misgendered since the shooting.

Accounts from friends and social media profiles belonging to a victim in last weekend’s shooting in Dayton, OH, whose name was previously reported as Megan Betts, indicate that Betts was a transgender man who went by Jordan Cofer and used he/him pronouns…

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Everyone I spoke to for this story wished that it not be politicized, I hope we can honor those wishes.

I don’t trust that these companies didn’t have a reason for cooperating with these ICE raids.

They have every incentive since the government is probably making them an offer they can’t refuse: if you cooperate fully in helping us round up your employees we won’t prosecute you for employing them, but if you even think about fucking with us we’ll throw the book at you.

Once the dust settles it will be interesting to see how many companies are prosecuted for employing those deported by ICE. My confident guess is a big fat zero.

Here’s the video of CNN reporting that Trump forced that now-orphaned baby, whose parents died shielding him during the mass shooting, to come back to the hospital for a Trump publicity event after the other victims refused to meet him. pic.twitter.com/CKDlxa8xMz— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) August 8, 2019

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There it is. “This IS formal impeachment proceedings,” Nadler tells @ErinBurnett, ending the semantics game about whether they’re in an impeachment inquiry or not. More details here:

Joe Biden, touring Iowa, told reporters, in so many words, that his plan is to have an ineffectual, failed presidency. Or, as Biden put it more pithily, “Ending the filibuster is a very dangerous move.”

FUCK. THIS. SHIT.

The institution is gone and the GOP has no incentive to bring it back until they are forced to. You win the Senate, you end the filibuster, and you go the fuck. to. town. Legal abortion. Gun bans. Taxes. Single payer. Add 2 court justices. Then offer to negotiate to bring it back.

Man, Harris needs to bring her A game on this next debate, because bickering over single payer is fucking pointless. Go after Joe for being fucking in denial about what the GOP is willing to do, and what Democrats need to be willing to do.

With Sue Gordon out, ODNI has no director, no acting dir. Gordon will leave a big void—a key strength is her reputation in Silicon Valley, where most intel innovation needs come from, per a US official. “She sits across from these CEO’s and has credibility. Will her replacement?”— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 8, 2019

Delurking to note that I’m seeing some interesting theories regarding the very young looking mass shooting survivor here in Dayton. Including one from a man in San Antonio who looked at Dayton’s local news feeds for more shooting victims and decided that a 7 year old girl who’d been shot Tuesday evening could be the actual pt in the picture.
The family did indeed drive the girl from west Dayton east to MVH. Because it’s two miles closer than Dayton Children’s, which is an excellent Level II Trauma pediatric hospital. So MVH would not be keeping a 7 year old patient because they don’t have a pediatric unit. And the area of west Dayton the girl was shot is primarily black. So no, the very young looking pt. is probably not a 7 year old shooting victim from west Dayton. Or any other pediatric trauma victim.

@JPL: Long, slow impeachment process to begin in the House! I’m with Rep. Al Green, who says we can’t wait for the election as Trump will continue to do terrible damage to our democracy/constitution/government..